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Taking on Waste Management at the Toybank Office!

Every
day we add in small or large way to the waste in the world that has nowhere to
go. Toybank has looked into some our unhelpful habits to be part of the
solution and adopted greener ways to work!

The good people from Skrap audited our office and came back in a few
weeks with lots of suggestions to manage the waste we generate. Starting with
food, we have brought in a set of compact, stackable compost pots lined with
paper and coco peat for all our wet waste disposal. Over months of accumulating
layers, the active contents of the peat and a couple of manual rotations, the
pots will serve as compost for the plants we have at our office.

As a unit, Toybank has brought down its use of paper to the minimum, and the little paper waste and other dry waste like plastic, cans and the occasional disposable bag we do use go to one of two Recycling bins.

Though it surely is going to take some initial getting used to, we’re keen on getting habituated to
better waste management and be greener employees and members of the community.

Toybank, an initiative under The Opentree Foundation, is an organization in India that promotes the Right to Play for all children, because a happy childhood defines almost every aspect of a child’s life and in turn the society. Founded in August 2004, our motto is to provide every economically-disadvantaged child an equal opportunity to education, achieved through healthy play and games.
As of January 2018, Toybank has set up 276 Play Centers and impacts the lives of 43,009 at-risk children every day.